Definition of waste

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Waste (a.) To damage, impair, or injure, as an estate, voluntarily, or by suffering the buildings, fences, etc., to go to decay..

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Conservatory :: Conservatory (n.) A place for preserving anything from loss, decay, waste, or injury; particulary, a greenhouse for preserving exotic or tender plants..
Wastage :: Wastage (n.) Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste..
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To endure or suffer use; to last under employment; to bear the consequences of use, as waste, consumption, or attrition; as, a coat wears well or ill; -- hence, sometimes applied to character, qualifications, etc.; as, a man wears well as an acquaintance..
Wear :: Wear (v. i.) To be wasted, consumed, or diminished, by being used; to suffer injury, loss, or extinction by use or time; to decay, or be spent, gradually..
Frugal :: Frugal (n.) Economical in the use or appropriation of resources; not wasteful or lavish; wise in the expenditure or application of force, materials, time, etc.; characterized by frugality; sparing; economical; saving; as, a frugal housekeeper; frugal of time..
Havoc :: Havoc (v. t.) To devastate; to destroy; to lay waste.
Wear :: Wear (v. t.) To impair, waste, or diminish, by continual attrition, scraping, percussion, on the like; to consume gradually; to cause to lower or disappear; to spend..
Ravage :: Ravage (n.) To lay waste by force; to desolate by violence; to commit havoc or devastation upon; to spoil; to plunder; to consume.
Gnaw :: Gnaw (v. t.) To corrode; to fret away; to waste.
Divast :: Divast (a.) Devastated; laid waste.
Gobbing :: Gobbing (n.) The process of packing with waste rock; stowing.
Brood :: Brood (v. t.) Heavy waste in tin and copper ores.
Poake :: Poake (n.) Waste matter from the preparation of skins, consisting of hair, lime, oil, etc..
Wastor :: Wastor (n.) A waster; a thief.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow..
Desolation :: Desolation (n.) The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) That which is lost or from which one has parted; waste; -- opposed to gain or increase; as, the loss of liquor by leakage was considerable..
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Not employed or enjoyed; thrown away; employed ineffectually; wasted; squandered; as, a lost day; a lost opportunity or benefit..
Economist :: Economist (n.) One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste..
Incomsumable :: Incomsumable (a.) Not consumable; incapable of being consumed, wasted, or spent..
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